Cezanne

Degas

Photography was a major influence on this artist's work, as evidenced by his pictures of ballerinas and horse races, with asymetrical compositions, and tilted angles with extreme cropping, as if the works were candid camera shots.

Toulouse-Lautrec

Goya

This early 19th century artist was outspoken against the corruption and vice, of the Court and the Church in Spain, reflecting the politically engaged spirit of Modernism while pre-dating it by a century.

obscura

montage

Russian filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein believed that significant juxtaposition of film scenes could have an aesthetic impact on a motion picture (today this is usually called editing). What did Eisenstein call it?

objects are placed directly on photo-paper, then exposed to light

D. W. Griffith

This filmmaker is credited as one of the first to realize the potential of the moving-eye, the development of traveling shots, pan shots and other techniques of varying the distance of the camera during a shot.

the Maya

Australia

The indigenous civilization on this continent, had a culture that remained unchanged for tens of thousands of years. They believe they can contact their ancestors in the Dreamtime, where spirits dwell.